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Awakened Cosmos

The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry

The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry

By David Hinton

By David Hinton

By David Hinton

By David Hinton

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    About Awakened Cosmos

    A deep and radically original exploration of Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist wisdom through the lens of the life and work of Tu Fu, widely considered China’s greatest classical poet.

    What is consciousness but the Cosmos awakened to itself? This question is fundamental to the Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist worldview that shapes classical Chinese poetry. A uniquely conceived biography, Awakened Cosmos illuminates that worldview through the life and work of Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.), China’s greatest classical poet. Tu Fu’s writing traces his life from periods of relative normalcy to years spent as an impoverished refugee amid the devastation of civil war. Exploring key poems to guide the reader through Tu Fu’s dramatic life, Awakened Cosmos reveals Taoist/Ch’an insight deeply lived across the full range of human experience.

    Each chapter presents a poem in three stages: first, the original Chinese; then, an English translation in Hinton’s masterful style; and finally, a lyrical essay that discusses the untranslatable philosophical dimensions of the poem. The result is nothing short of remarkable: a biography of the Cosmos awakened to itself in the form of a magisterial poet alive in T’ang Dynasty China.

    Thirty years ago, David Hinton published America’s first full-length translation of Tu Fu’s work. Awakened Cosmos is published simultaneously with a newly translated and substantially expanded version of that landmark translation: The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated (New Directions).

    About Awakened Cosmos

    A deep and radically original exploration of Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist wisdom through the lens of the life and work of Tu Fu, widely considered China’s greatest classical poet.

    What is consciousness but the Cosmos awakened to itself? This question is fundamental to the Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist worldview that shapes classical Chinese poetry. A uniquely conceived biography, Awakened Cosmos illuminates that worldview through the life and work of Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.), China’s greatest classical poet. Tu Fu’s writing traces his life from periods of relative normalcy to years spent as an impoverished refugee amid the devastation of civil war. Exploring key poems to guide the reader through Tu Fu’s dramatic life, Awakened Cosmos reveals Taoist/Ch’an insight deeply lived across the full range of human experience.

    Each chapter presents a poem in three stages: first, the original Chinese; then, an English translation in Hinton’s masterful style; and finally, a lyrical essay that discusses the untranslatable philosophical dimensions of the poem. The result is nothing short of remarkable: a biography of the Cosmos awakened to itself in the form of a magisterial poet alive in T’ang Dynasty China.

    Thirty years ago, David Hinton published America’s first full-length translation of Tu Fu’s work. Awakened Cosmos is published simultaneously with a newly translated and substantially expanded version of that landmark translation: The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated (New Directions).

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    Product Details

    Category: Poetry | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Philosophy

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Shambhala
    Oct 15, 2019 | 160 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9781611807424

    Category: Poetry | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Philosophy

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Shambhala
    Oct 15, 2019 | 160 Pages | ISBN 9780834842403

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